Proposal description

This proposal is to fund our ongoing infrastructure costs. We are requesting additional funding starting this cycle at an updated exchange rate. The overall effect is a reduction in requested Dash.

As you may be aware, dash.org was recently subject to a sizable 9 GB DDOS attack that disabled the site for much of the day on August 5th. To make matters worse, our DNS provider was down in parallel. As we have experienced poor service during these outages and in the interests of taking preventative measures, we plan to make several changes to the infrastructure operations.

We plan to move frontend DNS and hosting of all content on dash.org (including the forum) from qhoster to Cloudflare’s business plan, which should improve the quality and responsiveness of services we receive during outages. The Business plan includes advanced DDOS attack protection and mitigation and 100% uptime guarantees.